Leucon

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In Greek mythology, the name Leucon (; Ancient Greek: Λεύκων) may refer to:

• Leucon, a son of Themisto by either Athamas or Poseidon. His children were Erythras, Pisidice, Hyperippe and Euippe (mother of Eteocles by Andreus). He was said to have died of a sickness.
• Leucon, one of Actaeon's dogs.
• Leucon, in Plutarch's Life of Aristides, one of the seven heroes to whom the Athenians, according to an oracle, had to sacrifice if they wanted to overcome their foes in the imminent battle. The other six were Androcrates, Peisandrus, Damocrates, Hypsion, Actaeon and Polyeidus.

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References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

References

1. [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus). Apollodorus]], 1.9.2; [[Nonnus]], 9.314
2. [[Hyginus (Fabulae). Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#175 175]
3. [[Pausanias (geographer). Pausanias]], 6.21.11
4. [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''Argynnion''
5. [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women. Ehoiai]]'' fr. 70.8–43; [[Catalogue of Women#CITEREFWest1985a. West (1985a)]], p. 66 n. 79)
6. Pausanias, 9.34.9
7. Pausanias, 9.34.7
8. [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 3.218; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#181 181]
9. Plutarch, ''Aristides'' 11.3

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